Landenberg Junction (Delaware)

Landenberg Junction is a railroad junction in Elsmere, New Castle County, Delaware.

It situated at the southern end of CSX Transportation's Philadelphia Subdivision Wilsmere Yard.[1] The junction is the eastern terminus of the Wilmington and Western Railroad, which originally ran to Landenberg, Pennsylvania. Both lines were formerly owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O).[2][1]

The Wilmington and Western Railroad line ran from the junction at Elsmere to Landenberg, PA until the 1940s when the B&O decided to cut back the line to Southwood and eventually, in the 1950s, to Hockessin. The current Wilmington and Western Railroad operates tourist trains between Greenbank and Hockessin.

  1. ^ a b "A Visit to the Wilmington & Western Railroad". Railfan & Railroad Magazine. March 25, 2019.
  2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.